Wednesday, July 01, 2020

20-07-01 - Wednesday - Covid-19 Day 107 - New Hardware

It's been a busy few weeks. I should have posted more here, but I haven't. Probably a blessing. 

Now, however, I've bought myself a mini-keyboard for my tablet, so I can type away to my heart's content - and inflict the results on the wider world. I've had my eye on a Samsung book cover keyboard for this S5E tablet I've got, but I couldn't bring myself to spend upwards of £80 on one, which is what they go for on eBay. Someone was auctioning one off with a Buy It Now price of £60 so I submitted a Best Offer of £50 and had it accepted. So here we are, with a new keyboard.
To be brutally honest, I'm not overly impressed. It's nice and all, but for the amount of time that I use a keyboard with my tablet (and I'd like to do it more), I think probably connecting a keyboard over bluetooth might be the way to go. The standard book cover (without the keyboard) is quite handy, and I've been using it happily to hold the tablet. The new cover, with the keyboard, is a bit bulky and not so ergonomic. But then, I guess it is intended to fulfil a different purpose. I'm not sure I can be bothered to try and sell it though - I might keep it and use it "on occasion". 

The other addition to the household has been a new laptop, a Lenovo S540, which I'm quite happy with. The screen is nice, the keyboard is backlit, and the processor is pretty fast (and therefore future-proof, at least for a couple of years). I've not really used it much because I use my chromebook more often. But it's good to have a Windows machine as an option in the house. 

Anyway, that's enough for me for today. 
TTFN. 

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